Visions in the Nunnery is our renowned biennial showcase of moving image, digital and performance art, selected from an international open call.
Visions offers an informed overview of the provocative and quick-changing mediums of moving image and performance, presenting works from across the world. For each Visions we run two to three programmes and invite lead artists, renowned for their innovation in the digital field, to head and inspire each one. The ideas of the lead artists support the selection process and set the tone for the wider exhibition.
Our most recent Visions was led by artists Rosie Gibbens and Onyeka Igwe, who showed work alongside 62 artists hailing from 16 different countries across the globe, including Nigeria, Argentina, Iran, Pakistan, and Ukraine. The works were selected by Gibbens and Igwe from the international open call, which drew 737 submissions from 59 countries.
Established in 1999, Visions has exhibited artists including Oreet Ashery, Tacita Dean, Ori Gersht, Dryden Goodwin, Susan Hiller, Mikhail Karikis, Tina Keane, Lawrence Lek, Uriel Orlow, Hetain Patel, Heather Phillipson and Nye Thompson, many at the very early stages of their careers. Not to be missed, Visions gives viewers the unique experience of a curated conversation of filmmakers from across the world. Visions in the Nunnery is curated by artist and selector Tessa Garland with Sophie Hill, Director of Arts and Events at Bow Arts.
Our next Visions in the Nunnery programme will run from October to December 2027, with the open call announced earlier in the year.
Past Exhibitions
Visions Programme 1 led by Rosie Gibbens
Visions in the Nunnery is Bow Arts’ renowned biennial showcase of moving image, digital and performance art, selected from an international open call.
Visions Programme 2 led by Onyeka Igwe
Visions in the Nunnery is Bow Arts’ renowned biennial showcase of moving image, digital and performance art, selected from an international open call.
Visions Programme 2 led by Webb-Ellis
Programme 2 imagines a world which positions children and young people as seers and prophets, to guide us through our age of accelerating technological development, environmental crisis, and sociopolitical complexity.
Featured Artworks
Visions 2022: Programme 1 Teaser
Lead artist: Patrick Goddard
Visions 2022: Programme 1 Teaser
Lead artist: Patrick Goddard
Visions 2020: Programme 1 Teaser
Lead artist: Hetain Patel
Visions 2020: Programme 2 Teaser
Lead artist: Nye Thompson
